May 21, 2001
VIVENDI BUYING MP3 ; $372M DEAL BRINGS 150,000 NEW ARTISTS
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amVivendi Universal SA, the owner of the world's biggest record company, said yesterday it struck a deal to buy the online music provider MP3.com for $372 million in cash and...
RAINBOW MEDIA PLANS STREET-LEVEL STUDIO
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amCablevision's Rainbow Media Group is planning to join the street-level TV studio craze with a new outpost across from Madison Square Garden, The Post has learned. The subsidiary of Cablevision,...
TIME RUNS OUT FOR LONG-TIMERS
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amLOGAN'S Run begins this week at Time Inc. The early retirement packages are finally ready to start landing on desks on Thursday or Friday in the Time Inc. magazine empire,...
FORBIDDEN FLEECE : A POX ON PASHMINA! FASHIONISTAS ITCH TO CUDDLE UP TO VICUNA
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amCALL the fashion police! The latest luxury status symbol is illegal in the United States. You'll have to jet to Europe or Asia to procure the fine fleece of the...
TOO SLEEPY, TOO HOLLOW; THERE'S A WEARY CAST TO 'BUFFY' FINALE
May 21, 2001 | 4:00am"Buffy, the Vampire Slayer" Tomorrow at 8 p.m. on WPIX/ Ch. 11 EVERY couple of years, due to circumstances too complicated to go into here, I'm faced with reviewing an...
CBS 'SURVIVOR' CHALLENGE: AD COSTS
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amFRESH off the finale of "Survivor 2," CBS is putting the squeeze on its advertisers again - trying to strike while the iron is still hot. The message this week...
ITALY'S MORETTI COPS THE GOLD
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amITALIAN and Austrian movies copped the top prizes at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday - but the directing trophy was shared by a pair of idiosyncratic Americans, Joel Coen and...
RATS! TO ABT'S 'PIPER'
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amAMERICAN BALLET THEATERMetropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center. (212) 362-6000. Season runs through June 23. I GUESS half-a-million bucks doesn't buy you all that much in the technological world of today's...
CHEF OF LAUGHS SERVES US WELL: SID CAESAR TOSSES UP TASTEFUL HILARITY
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amTELEVISION comedy legend Sid Caesar still loves "The Godfather" - but he says he hates "The Sopranos." Caesar, 79, revolutionized live TV in the 1950s with his classic "Your Show...
THE STARR REPORT
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amO.J. translates into 'Extra' ratings bonanza "Extra's" exclusive interview with O.J. Simpson pondering the still-unsolved murder of Robert Blake's wife, Bonny Lee Bakely, went through the proverbial ratings roof last...
JUST A CONSUMER SHOPPING FOR TRUTH
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amA few days ago, I went shopping and, once again, came home a very confused consumer.The following conversations are how - in an effort to clarify some products' claims -...
'PRODUCERS' PRODUCES 11 AWARDS
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amIN a preview of what will likely happen at the Tony Awards next month, "The Producers" swept the Drama Desk Awards last night, picking up 11 prizes including Outstanding Musical....
TUNES POP INTO PLAY FOR RUFUS
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amTHE tour was over. Rufus Wainwright, after tasting the glam life for his much-lauded first album, had to think about his sophomore effort. So the Canadian native and 27-year-old son...
BATTING PRACTICE
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amCLARA Bow was famous for her fringes. Jennifer Lopez sports flirty fox fur numbers. And at the next Academy Awards, there'll be power in sexy, fluttering eyelashes. They're a major...
BATTLE OF WWII MEMORIAL AT HAND
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Senate could vote as early as this week on building a World War II memorial in the middle of the National Mall, despite gripes that the design...
JET LAG MAY MAKE YOU AN AIRHEAD
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amJet lag can make your brain shrink, a group of researchers said yesterday. Scientists using MRI scans and other tests to study 20 female flight attendants found that those who...
PLOT TWIST IN 'FATHER-SON' MOVIEMAKER MYSTERY
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amForget "Pearl Harbor" - Hollywood is buzzing about a true-life scandal involving the paternity of the $140 million blockbuster's director, Michael Bay. Finally addressing rumors that have circulated for years,...
JESS WHAT WE NEED: A MAN WITH A PAST
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amTHE very Rev. Al Sharpton should turn all his supporters upside down, so much cash will fall from their pockets. With that money tucked in his fist, honest as he...
DRINKERS AT STREET FAIRS: THERE'S A BOOZE BAN?
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amSo, how did New Yorkers greet the season's first major enforcement of the city's new open-air booze ban at neighborhood street festivals? With a toast, of course. Despite a heavy...
BLOOMBERG WALKS THE WALK AT ISRAEL PARADE
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amMichael Bloomberg hasn't announced his candidacy for mayor, but he was acting very much like he's in the race yesterday as he marched for the first time in the Salute...
SHARPTON AIMING AT '04 BID FOR PRESIDENT
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton says he may run for president in 2004 - assuming a national leadership role in the black community long held by the Rev. Jesse Jackson. "Clearly,...
RAPPER KIN STABBED
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amA cousin of rapper Half-A-Mill was stabbed early yesterday inside a Midtown studio while his relative was laying down tracks, police said. Tonnie Sheppard, 38, was arguing with an unidentified...
THE NEW YORK POST FROM MAY 21, 1945
May 21, 2001 | 4:00am"Mansfield, Ohio - In a three-minute ceremony, Humphrey Bogart, movie tough guy, and Lauren (The Look) Bacall, his leading lady, were married today at novelist Louis Bromfield's farm. It was...
STRIP-CLUB HONCHO PUSHED DRUGS: FBI
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amA former strip-club manager who allegedly provided hookers for Knick players was also accused of drug trafficking, The Post has learned. Thomas "Ziggy" Sicignano, a former manager of the Gold...
MEMO TO DRIVERS: RED MEANS STOP!
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amCrime may be down, but New Yorkers are breaking the law 1.2 million times a day - 28 times a second - by running red lights, according to a new...
RETURN OF SPY PLANE GOES TO PIECES
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The White House has given up hopes of flying a damaged spy plane out of China, and will settle for packing it into crates and shipping it home....
HILL 'TEASES' YALE GRADS WITH A TALK ABOUT HAIR
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton joked about the importance of hair yesterday with students at Yale, a day before the school gives President Bush an honorary degree. Making a...
CHENEY CLOSES DOOR ON COMPARISONS TO HILLARY
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney said yesterday he's no Hillary, shooting down complaints that his super-secret energy team copied the closed-door style of the former first lady's health-care panel....
CHUBBY CHECKER $UPPORTS COPS
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amRock-'n'-roll icon Chubby Checker is trading in his dancing loafers for golf shoes - to help out badly injured cops. The originator of "The Twist" will host the Brooklyn North...
RAISING $4.3M FOR AIDS IS A WALK IN THE PARK
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amMore than 40,000 people yesterday gathered in Central Park for the 10-kilometer AIDS Walk, raising an estimated $4.35 million in the fight against the deadly disease. The money came through...
GRAD CARTER FAILS TO NAIL FINAL EXAM
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - It could have been a great day for Vince Carter. But instead of memories of receiving his college diploma from the University of North Carolina, Carter will remember...
'SOPRANOS' FINALE HITS SOUR NOTE
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amAT LEAST there were no talking fish. Just a lot of talking - and not nearly enough action - as "The Sopranos" ended its third season last night on HBO....
JACK GETS WHACKED - AS IF FANS DIDN'T KNOW
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amJackie Aprile Jr. didn't see it coming - but fans of "The Sopranos" sure did. Viewers of last night's season finale said they knew there was a bullet with Jackie's...
TANKS AND MISSILES ROCK THE MIDEAST
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Fresh clashes between Israelis and Palestinians stirred up Mideast tensions on the eve of a U.S. commission report that will demand an immediate halt to violence in the...
WOMEN PUMPED UP OVER BUST BOOSTER
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amNew York women looking for va-va-voom cleavage can now Hoover their way to a better bust with a battery-powered bra. A handful of New York plastic surgeons have begun offering...
'RIGHT' MAN FOR W. ALL WRONG FOR DEMS
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - To many Democrats, Ted Olson is the right-wing conspiracy personified. Olson did, after all, have a Forrest Gump-like knack for being present, or behind the scene, for several...
NEW BREAST-CANCER TEST
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amDoctors at Manhattan's Beth Israel Medical Center have begun using a revolutionary new procedure that can detect breast cancer years before a tumor would show up on a mammogram. The...
BOWLED-OVER BROOKLYNITES IN THE GUTTER AGAIN
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amTO HEAR the old-timers tell it (and tell it and tell it and tell it), the heart of Brooklyn was ripped out when Ebbets Field was torn down in 1960....
EXCLUSIVE: AIR PATAKI - GOV'S SPENT A BUNDLE LEASING FLASHY JETS
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amGOV. PATAKI, who ripped former Gov. Mario Cuomo for spending too many tax dollars flying around on state airplanes, recently spent more than $103,000 on luxury corporate jets, The Post...
NIKITA RUNS OUT OF STEAM
May 21, 2001 | 4:00am1ST RACE - Nikita, making her first start since being reclaimed by Joe Pantaleo, was bumped at the start but then recovered quickly to set the early pace. She had...
A COURT JESTER DECISON ; STRAW JUDGE A JOKE
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amTHURSDAY in Florida, Darryl Strawberry provided a great public service. Standing before a stage-stricken judge, he helped prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that justice not only isn't blind, its eyes...
ANOTHER SOLID REED
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amThere are a host of things wrong with the Mets, a number of flaws that have the Amazin's mired in last-place in the NL East. Rick Reed clearly is not...
CARPENTER PROVIDES UNEXPECTED HAND
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amYou just don't see an assistant coach from a minor league affiliate replacing an assistant from the NHL team behind the bench in the middle of the conference finals. Unless,...
DESI GETS SHOT AT REDEMPTION
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amThere were 43,404 on hand at Shea yesterday, but Desi Relaford must have felt like the loneliest man in New York as Dodger after Dodger scored in the eighth inning....
DEVS' OLD GUARD SHOWS WAY
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amThey are both 37, Devil teammates for nearly a decade. Now they are showing the whippersnappers, the upstarts who suggest they use their sticks as canes, showing them how the...
SHOWDOWN NOT A 'GIVEN' ; 'POINT' MAY SKIP BELMONT
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - The great showdown between Point Given and Monarchos in the Belmont Stakes next month looms the thriller of the racing season. Just don't bet that it will happen....
PISTONS OFFER JOB TO CARLISLE
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amFormer Pacers assistant coach Rick Carlisle has been offered the Pistons head coach job and is expected to be named this week, pending contract negotiations, The Post has learned. Carlisle,...
SUN HASN'T SET ON METS, YET
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amOVER? Is it over because Fred Wilpon told Steve Phillips that $100 million is a figure he couldn't go over? Is it over because Donne Wall can't get the ball...
DEVS PROFILE WINNING STYLE
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amTHEY WOKE up this morning the way they wake up every morning in New Jersey, free from distractions, free to be themselves, free to go about their business of being...
SHINJO SINGLE DASHES DODGERS
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amMets 6 Dodgers 5 Tsuyoshi Shinjo may not comprehend much English, but the importance of his game-winning hit transcended any language barrier. The Japanese outfielder bailed out the Mets with...
NETS THINKING BIG
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - With the seventh pick in the draft, the Nets might have to think big, especially after the latest report on center/forward Jamie Feick. Feick's agent, Keith Glass, last...
METS MAY HAVE TO EX-SPEIER
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amMET NOTES Justin Speier was in uniform yesterday, but don't expect him to pitch for the Mets anytime soon. Speier was acquired from Cleveland on Saturday in exchange for a...
TRAINERS HEDGE THEIR BETS
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amBALTIMORE - The spotlight fell on Point Given two weeks ago at Churchill Downs to win the Kentucky Derby en route to sweeping the Triple Crown - but an impostor...
JORDAN'S ALREADY A WIZ AT LOTTERY
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amMichael Jordan continued to haunt his old team and former Bulls sparring partner Jerry Krause yesterday. Jordan's Wizards won the NBA lottery while the Bulls suffered their worst-possible scenario. Entering...
SWEEPLESS IN SEATTLE: SLOPPY YANKS THROW AWAY GAME TO M'S
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amMariners 6 Yankees 2 SEATTLE - Two wins over the best team in baseball had the Yankees poised to clear their throats yesterday when they turned to Roger Clemens and...
JOE DREADS FACING BOSOX' CONE
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES SEATTLE - As if a Red Sox-Yankees series needs a shot of adrenaline, here comes David Cone with "BOSTON" written across his chest. "No question it's going to...
STEAMED EL DUQUE CONFRONTS NELLIE
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amSEATTLE - No interpreter was needed to see that El Duque wasn't asking Jeff Nelson about his family. With The Post standing 300 feet away from the pitchers who were...
IVERSON CUTS OFF RAPS AT PASS
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amGAME 7 Sixers 88 Raptors 87 PHILADELPHIA - The throbbing pain in his tailbone would be dwarfed by the agony to surge through his body if the Sixers could not...
BOMBERS GO OUT TO SEA. SLOPPY YANKS THROW AWAY GAME TO M'S
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amMariners 6 Yankees 2 SEATTLE - The feeling around the Yankees yesterday was they were finally ready to clear their throats and take their proper place among baseball's elite. Consecutive...
AIR CANADA LANDS IN PLENTY OF TIME
May 21, 2001 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - Vince Carter touched down in a private jet here yesterday morning and was at the Raptors' team hotel shortly after noon. And for that, Toronto coach Lenny Wilkens...